A new species from the eastern Amazon rainforest with lectotype designations and key for Brazilian Oxarthrius Reitter, 1883 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae).

Oxarthrius spiculatus sp. nov. from the Brazilian Amazon is described.

Landscape resistance index aiming at functional forest connectivity.

Resistance models may quantify the ability of the landscape to impede species' movement and represent suitable habitats. Moreover, the performance of resistance models parameterized by land-use/land cover attributes evidence that the integrity of the environments subject to urban sprawl is poorly understood. In this sense, the study assumed we could identify the forest functional connectivity in a landscape considering the disparity in the landscape mosaic.

On the Amazonian cricket Phalangopsis Serville, 1831 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae): biology, morphology, and a new species.

Phalangopsis mimbypysara n. sp. is described from specimens collected in natural cavities in the region of Altamira and Vitória do Xingu, state of Pará, Brazil.

COVID-19 spatialization by empirical Bayesian model in São Paulo, Brazil.

The new Acute Respiratory Syndrome, COVID-19, has affected the health and the economy worldwide. Therefore, scientists have been looking for ways to understand this disease. In this context, the main objective of this study was the spatialization of COVID-19, thinking in distinguishing areas with high transmissibility yet, verifying if these areas were associated with the elderly population occurrence.

Effects of forest cover pattern on water quality of low-order streams in an agricultural landscape in the Pirapora river basin, Brazil.

Low-order streams are important places for river formation and are highly vulnerable to changes in terrestrial ecosystems. Thus, the land-use/land-cover plays an important role in the maintenance of water quality. However, only land-use/land-cover composition may not explain the spatial variation in water quality, because it does not consider land-use/land-cover configuration and forest cover pattern.

A multicriteria evaluation approach to set forest restoration priorities based on water ecosystem services.

Forest plays an important role in keeping water ecosystem services, such as drinking water provision. Thus, payment for ecosystem services is an essential instrument to promote forest restoration in agricultural watersheds. However, funds are limited and must be well planned to ensure water resources conservation and water ecosystem services improvement.

Multiscale land use impacts on water quality: Assessment, planning, and future perspectives in Brazil.

Brazil contains the largest volume of freshwater of any nation in the world; however, this essential natural resource is threatened by rapid increases in water consumption and water quality degradation, mainly as a result of anthropogenic pressures. Declining water quality has become an increasingly more significant global concern as economic activities and human populations expand and climate change markedly alters hydrological cycles. Changes in land-use/land-cover (LULC) pattern have been recognized as a major driver of water quality degradation, however different LULC types and intensities affect water quality in different ways.

The first species of Cotithene Voss (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae) from Amazonian Brazil, with notes on its role as a pollinator of Evodianthus funifer (Poit.) Lindm. (Cyclanthaceae).

Cotithene gorayebi Valente, da Silva de Medeiros, sp. nov. is the first species of Cotithene Voss, 1940 described from the Amazonian forest in Brazil.

Description of a new species of Surazomus (Arachnida: Schizomida), with comments on homology of male flagellum and mating march anchorage in the genus.

Surazomus saturninoae sp. nov. is described from eastern Amazon.

Revision of Bondariella Hustache & Bondar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with descriptions of the first species from the Amazon and notes on natural history.

Bondariella Hustache & Bondar, 1942 is revised. In addition to the redescription of the genus and its four previously known species, we report and describe the first species from the Amazonian region: Bondariella rudicula sp. nov.

The first Amazonian species of Andranthobius Kuschel (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with records of new host palms for the genus.

Andranthobius setirostris sp. nov. is the first species of Andranthobius Kuschel described from the Amazon.

Practitioner perspectives on the National Institute of Justice's Violence Against Women Research and Evaluation Program.

Five practitioners who have worked with NIJ over recent years were asked to provide a critique of NIJ's VAW program based on their experience. Individuals from professions that the program seeks to assist or inform offered the following commentaries.

Isolation of new rotenoids from Boerhaavia diffusa and evaluation of their effect on intestinal motility.

A bioassay-guided separation of a methanolic extract obtained from the roots of Boerhaavia diffusa L. (Nyctaginaceae) allowed us to isolate five compounds belonging to the class of rotenoids: the known boeravinone D ( 1), boeravinone E ( 2), compound 5 and two novel compounds that we have named boeravinone G ( 3) and boeravinone H ( 4). The structures of the new molecules have been determined on the basis of their HR-EI-MS, (1)H- and (13)C-NMR and 2D-NMR (HMQC, HMBC) data.